Thursday, December 17, 2015

Robert Hummel, Master of Direct Mailing, Dies

Pioneered in his art and worked across party lines.

Robert Hummel, the acknowledged master of political direct mailing in Memphis, who worked across party lines for a Who’s Who of political candidates and campaigns, collapsed and died Wednesday at his current Memphis workplace at American Resource Systems in Bartlett.

Hummel’s late mother, Barbara Walker Hummel, was a Miss America in 1948, and his brother, Andy Hummel, was a founding member of Big Star, the power rock band headed by the late Alex Chilton.

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In which Memphis’ Democratic congressman Steve Cohen, addressing an apparent GOP effort to muddy the waters on the Russian inquiry, not only takes no crap but gives it back where it came from. This is worth watching from beginning to end -- even for those who might disagree on the politics of the matter.

Senator tells media in Chattanooga that the President "has not demonstrated" ability or competetence, "doubles down" on his mistakes, and lacks understanding "of what has made this nation great."

Ranking member of House Judiciary subcommittee, says, apropos Charlottesville and Trump's apparent defense of the white nationalist fomentors there: "There are no good Nazis. There are no good Klansmen."

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Ranking member of House Judiciary subcommittee, says, apropos Charlottesville and Trump's apparent defense of the white nationalist fomentors there: "There are no good Nazis. There are no good Klansmen."

In which the 8th District Congressman, on a district-wide tour, meets his public, sort of, in a pair of local gatherings.

In Part One of a reorganizational process on Saturday, conventioneers in a packed hall at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church gathered to revive the fortunes of a decertified SCDP.; UPDATED WITH NAMES OFNEWLY ELECTED SCDP MEMBERS